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Mexican Immigrants in the U.S. Labor Force in 2000
By 2000, Mexican immigrants made up 27 percent of all foreign-born U.S. workers, concentrated heavily in production, service, farming, and manufacturing sectors.
U.S. Temporary Worker Programs: Lessons Learned
Past U.S. temporary worker programs showed chronic enforcement failures, which may have implications for President George W. Bush's larger 2004 proposal.
From Traitors to Heroes: 100 Years of Mexican Migration Policies
Mexican emigration policy has evolved through multiple phases over time.
Chile: Moving Towards a Migration Policy
Though immigrants accounted for just over 1 percent of Chile's population in 2000, growing flows from Peru and Argentina have pressed the country to replace its 1975 migration law.
Tonga: Migration and the Homeland
Remittances equal half of Tonga’s economy in 2002, but an overseas-born generation with weaker homeland ties threatens the long-term flow.
The Foreign Born from Vietnam in the United States in 2000
The Vietnamese immigrant population in the United States grew 82 percent between 1990 and 2000 to more than 988,000.
Belgium's Undocumented Hold Lessons for EU
Interviews with 130 undocumented migrants in Belgium showed motivations are complex, challenging EU migration policy assumptions.
Bush Proposes New Temporary Worker Program
U.S. President George W. Bush's January 2004 temporary visa plan drew mixed reactions amid concerns about enforcement gaps, worker rights, and the absence of a direct pathway to citizenship.
Fewer Ethnic Germans Immigrating to Ancestral Homeland
Ethnic German immigration to Germany dropped to 72,000 in 2003, with a continued decline expected as support programs in Aussiedlers' countries abroad strengthen their will to stay.
UNHCR and NGOs: Competitors or Companions in Refugee Protection?
After mid-1990s crises in the Balkans and Central Africa, humanitarian groups expanded into refugee protection, prompting renewed but still-uneasy collaboration with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR).